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The Infinite Monkey Cage

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General Relativity - Is There a Force of Gravity Pulling You Down?

einstein was described as having toppled isaac newton. Rights ho had this giant of science who had given the world an understanding, they thought, of the theory of gravity. And here comes einstein to give a radically distinct picture that head to head with newton's approach in these eclipse observations of 19 19. You can have the experience which tells you that there's no force of gravity pulling you down. That's totally in cord with generalativity, but at odds with the newtonian theory. It's pushing up on you right now, you can feel it.

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